Improvement in fumigators for bee-hives



UNITED STATES ABRAHAM R. DENLINGER, OF GORDONVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FUMIGATORS FOR BEE-HlVES.

Specication forming part 'of Letters Patent No. 139,881, dated June 17, 1873; application led f May 9, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM R. 'DENLIN- GER, of Gordonville, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain Apparatus for Taming Bees, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and efficient means to convey' smoke made from dry, dosed, or rotten' wood, into all parts of a hive or among the bees, Without injury to the bees or honey, and yet to have the effect of taming them so as to become per fectly docile, and be easily transferred from one box to another, or for removing the comb in taking honey. The accompanying drawing shows the apparatus, in which- A is a sheet-iron cylinder of any desired size 5 this is provided with a perforated bottom or diaphragm, shown by the dotted lines at a. This cylinder has a conic base, c, which can be made of tinned iron, as also the tube or tubes' Ff. A handle, B, is also shown; this may be lnade a socket for a wooden handle, if preferred. A top tits into the cylinder forming a cap with its conic part c, and tube or tubes D E, and terminal mouth-piece e. There is also a diaphragm, b, shown in the cap or top c; this cap fits into the cylinder and closes the top tightly.

Dry, rotten, or dosed wood, or touch-wood,

' is placed into the cylinder with a live coal, or

lit Awith a match, and the cap is put on. The decayed wood or combustible material becomes ignited, and by blowing in through the decayed wood for the purpose,` the bees 1 speedily recover from its eii'ects, and become as lively as ever, notwithstanding their docility under its iniiuence so as to allow themselves to be freely handled, changed, or their honey-combs removed, without attempte 1 ing to ily away or to sting. It isralso perfectly safe against dropping lire.

I am aware that smoking bees is not new, especially with tobacco, which often proves injurious, yet the means heretofore employed were unsatisfactory, and this simple invention supplies a want long felt.

What I claim as my invention is The cylinder A and top C, each provided with a perforated diaphragm, a b, and tube or t tubes D E F, with the mouth-piece and conic end f, substantially as shown and de` scribed, for the purpose specied.

ABRAHAM R; DENLINGER Witnesses WM. B. WILEY, JAcoB STAUEFEE.

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